Everyone loves to publish
This is the season when young people, printer's
ink in their blood, turn their fancies to thoughts of
publishing.
The Informer, in the tradition of campus gad
fly, has already tossed its cap (admittedly, only a
size 4 but with potential to grow) into the ring,
published by a group that prefers to remain an
onymous, this mimeographed sheet has already
been produced three times.
According to its creators, the original concept
of the Informer involved changing the minds of
those who were not yet radicalized. Now, however,
the paper acts as a house organ a means of com
munication among members of the "new culture."
For staffers of the Informer it's "publish and
perish' rather than "publish or perish". Publishing
is difficult enough (the Informer staff knows that
they were evicted after their first issue and con
sequently missed the next deadline) without the
added problems of harassment from neightbors,
the police and the landlord.
Another paper, still lurking somewhere in the
w ings, is scheduled to come out as soon as the pub
lishers learn how to use the press (someone said
that the would-be publishers accidentally poured
ink into their offset press).
Produced by members of the Young Americans
for Freedom, this paper will 'assume the role of ad
versary to The Nebraskan in order to provide stu
dents with an alternate source of information and
opinions. YAF apparently doesn't have the finan
cial problems that the Informer is struggling with.
Claiming that, "A paper isn't that hard to get to
gether." Terrill Cannon, president of the group,
stated, "We have the funds and the press. We'll
print as soon as we get organized."
The Nebraska welcomes both the Informer and
the yet un-named and unproduced YAF papers into
the business. There is plenty of room for the diver,
sity of thought and expression. Whether or not the
two papers will last the year is a matter that will
rest on the finances and, more importantly, the
dedication of the people involved.
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(Editors note:: the following
letter refers to a style change
recently adopted by THE
NEBRASKAN. Almost a 1 1
newspapers use AF style which
suggests that men be called by
their first and last names for the
first reference and thereafter b
designated only by their last
came.
Likewise, women are first
referred to by their first and last
names but later references are
supposed to consist of the last
name with "Miss or "Mrs."' as
a prefix. THE NEBRASKAN has
eliminated the use of Miss or
Mrs. when referring to women.
However, Ms. will be used to
designate a woman when clarity
requires differentiation between
the sexes as between husband
and wife, brother and sister, or
two unrelated people with the
siime last name. )
Dear Editor:
With regard to the notice that
THE NEBRASKAN wilt
henceforth designate women by
the prefix "Ms. rather than
"Mrs. or "Miss (small black
box, bottom of front page, Oct.
8 issue) because the traditional
usage "discriminates between
married and unmarried
women, let me express my
outrage at the Inadequacy of
the decision.
As a male member ttf the
human race, I submit that tht
designations yn Mm propose
to us rMs." - "Mr.")
discriminate between men and
women, aa obvious and trade
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affront to my personal dignity,
to say nothing of an infringe
ment of my civil rights.
In the interests of fairness,
let us designate every human
being at birth with a unique
number which he will use for
identification thereafter under
all circumstances. This will
insure complete fairness in all
public communication and end
the blatant discrimination im
plied by distinguishing between
married vs. unmarried status,
or between male vs. female.
I hope you will give both this
suggestion and the one
described in the Oct. 3 issue of
THE NEBRASKAN the careful
attention they both deserve.
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I Richard K.Boohar
Kudos
Dear Editor-.
On Friday, October 2, your
paper published a review of the
motion picture Getting
Straight. The review was writ
ten by Cater Chamblee.
I enjoyed bis review im
mensely, as it reconfirmed In
my mind the idea that there Is
definitely a lack of com
munication between students,
faculty, and administrators.
I would be the first to agree
with those who suggest that the
movie is a gross over
simplification of the problems
that exist on our college can,
puses today. I would suggest
that before one can proceed to
solve any problem, an in
dividual must be cognizant of
. . Letters .
the fact that a conflict of sorts
does exist. Also, one must have
the ability to analyze the prob
lem objectively, which is often
quite hard to do. Each of us is
either playina the role of stu
dent, faculty member or
administrator. And sadly
enough, none of us is willing to
assume the responsibility or
attitudes of the other.
Joseph J. Plant
To Mr. Cater Chamblee:
As I left the movie Getting
Straight. I was inundated by
surrounding comments such as
"right on," "lays it on the
tine," "very heavy, et at I
almost slit my wrists. Many
thanks for your . trenchant
testimonial elucidating the true
worth of this abomination.
G. I. Anderson
..Associate Professor
Architecture
P.S. I sent a copy of your
review to Holly Spence of the
Lincoln paper suggesting sh
should shape up.
Vrrsent Crisis
Dear Editor:
A non - functioning govern
ment for the people. Educa
tion that is totally irrelevant to
the people. Economics that to
totally irrelevant to the people.
Religions and values that are
totally Irrelevant to the people.
People are irrelevant to the
people.
Exploitation of the environ
ment, poisoning of the en
vironment, exploitation o f
natural fords through process
ing; exploitation of people
. . Letters
through processing..
Overpopulation without ration
is out to kill our world and our
nation.
This sounds apocalyptic, but
it isn't. What is apocalyptic is
the fact that most people don't
know this entity of confused
terror is in existence and they
are responsible for it and they
make it worse every tenth of a
second of a day, by not
ackowledgiiig its existence.
The present crisis is to make
people aware of the doom and
demise of the humn race by its
own hands (in fifteen years
approximately) without them
panicking and bringing it
closer..
My guess is that the only
thing that can save us is us, but
we can't save us if we don't
know we need saving.
Our romantic notions of "life
will go on as usual" has totally
blinded us to the real reality of
the present crisis.
It seems ludicrous to me to
bring children into the world
today to become presidents,
lawyers, doctors, teachers, or
even policemen, when you have
to be way over fifteen years of
age to hold these types of jobs
and your kids won't make it
past sixteen. Pre-teenage
marriages are going to be the
thing of the day for those who
wish to see their
grandchildren.
You might want to ask me
where are my isolated ex
amples of documented proof of
what I'm saying. And I say
Outside the Tower
Universal service: dangerous
by TOM SIEDELL
If Sen, Birch Bayh's (D-Ind.)
recent visit to our campus
proved anything, it was that
the art of nostrum-peddling is
not dead. In less than an hour
the good senator covered
everything from God to Mother
(she died when he was young,
you see)..
THE "SYSTEM, he said,,
must be made more represen
tative, more responsive, more
relevant, more viable. He
quoted John Kennedy. In short,
he used every cliche in the
liberal's handbook. He even
discarded his prepared text in
order to give a more personal,
"off the cuff" speech. No
kidding. Of course most of the
speech, was given verbatim
from his press conference
earlier, but at least he tried.
MOST OF HIS speech was
innocuous enough, of course,
butt in the question-and-answer
period afterward he touched
lig&tjy on a proposal which
seenjs to me to be one of the
most dangerous ideas yet to
appear on the American
political scene, more dangerous
eviift than, involuntary military
conscription.
The proposal is generally
called by its proponents "na
tional service." The idea is not
that we abolish the draft by
instituting a volunteer army,
but rather that people be
allowed to fulfill their obliga-
don't show me your cowardice
and ignorance show me your
courage and intellect,, disprove
what I say about the nation and
the world,
Michael Don Carlos Randall
P S. Suicide is painless, it
brings on many changes .. .. .
WA denies YAF
Dear Editor.
The Executive Board of the
Institute for Political Analysis
wishes it to be known that; In
recent weeks, since the issue of
our analysis and commentary
of the reports concerning th
student strike of last May, we
have been asked by several in
dividuals if the Institute is in
any way connected with YAF
or Us campus leadership..
We state .firmly and h
revocably that it Is not
Further, we have been advised
that some individuals were led
to believe that our analysis was
the brainchild of the YAF
leadership and-or that it was
printed by the YAF or with
YAF backing.
There is absolutely no shred
of truth in either of theee
statements. The conscience of
the IPA membership precludes
affiliation with the YAF in any
form whatsoever. Any
statements linking the IPA with
YAF or its leadership, national
or local, ore patently untrue.
Michael L. Egger
Vice President
, The Institute for
Political Analysis
tion to the national government
by serving in, for example,, the
Peace Corps or VISTA.
ON THE SURFACE, this
seems like a wonderful idea..
Just think, all our young people
can serve their country by
waging peace, a marvelous
idea to be sure, rather than
waging war.. How glorious this
sounds!' Of course, some will
still have to go into the
military, to be shot at like clay
pigeons at a trap shoot, but
there will be an alternative for
those who desire it.
The root question here is
this: Does the government
have the right to demand the
services of its citizens without
their consent, and, if so, under
what circumstances?
THE FIRST DUTY of a
government, any government,
is to preserve itself. If it does
not try to preserve itself, it
fails those from whom that
government derives its support,
whether that be a small group in
the society, or, as in the ideal
democracy, the entire
; citizenry. This means that the
government has two primary
objectives. First, it must pro
tect itself from internal
subversion, and second, it must
maintain its existence as a
sovereign nation. In a
. republican form of government
this does not mean that, for in
stance, the party in power tries
to preserve itself in power, but
rather that those of both
Our man hoppe
Will anybody buy Unruh?
by ARTHUR HOPPE
Here it is, less tihara four
weeks to election day. As usual,
the eyes of the Nation are
focused on California.
If Governor Reagan can win
big, the experts say, he will
once again become the Con
servatives' standard, bearer.
He'll be a force at the '72 GOP
Convention. And he'll possibly
be our next President.
So as the excitement mounts
to fever pieth, the question on
everyone s lips across this
great land of ours is:
"Can Reagan whip
Whatshisname?"
To get the answer, I in
stituted an all-out search for
the Democratic campaign
headquarters. I think I found
it: a third-floor watlk-up
strategically located outside
the high-rent district in the lit
tle community of East
Gilroy.
A crayoned sign over the
door says bravely: "Jess
Unruh Victory Headquarters
and Next-to-New-Shop (pants
cuffed while U wait).'
I could tell I was in the right
place.. A cburehmouse stag
gered out of a hole in the wall,
toppled over, clutched its bony
chest and expired before my
eyes in the last agonies of
starvation.
"Yes, we're confident our
dynamic, hard-hitting, all-out
parties, all elected represen
tatives of the people, must
work to protect the "system."
Now, given this rule, I think
a case can be made that a
government can call upon its
citizenry to aid in those twin
objectives; in particular, it can
draft people into the military.
This, of course,, causes certain
problems in a naton that fan
cies itself to be free. Clearly
any free society which desires
to abridge to any extent an in
dividual's freedom of action
must do so on clearly defined
grounds. This is the essence of
constitutionalism. Indeed, it is
only in a constitutional system
that freedom can exist at all.
Surely, then, a free soceity,
specifically the government in
that society, must limit itself in
order to provide the greatest
degree of freedom to in
dividuals in that society. As
this applies to the military
draft, it can force conscription
only when absolutely necessary
"emergency" conditions, if you
will; and it must never forget
that this service is involuntary
servitude. Slavery no more,
no less.
Sen. Bayh and those of his
cohorts who favor "national
service" are clearly violating
this principle. What they are
saying is something like this.
No, we don't need to draft
everyone (indeed, maybe by
making certain changes we
campaign will bring us vic
tory", said one of the many
(three) campaign aides, "and
do you have a cheese sandwich
on you? Or maybe a stale
cracker?"
I asked where the candidate
was.
"He's off on another
triumphal Statewide tour to
carry his message to tflie .peo
ple," said the aide. "But you
might still catch him at the
11th street eatrawce to the
Breeway, unless he's already
caught a ride."
Hitchhiking? Was this any
way for a candidate to carry
his message to the people?
"Frankly, we can't afford a
stamp." said foe aide. "That's
why Mr. Unruh's been going
around standing on sidewalks.
You knew, he stood on Henry
Salvabori's sidewalk to
dramatize the tax break this
big contributor got from the
Reagan Administration. Then
he stood on Reagan's sidewalk
to dramatize the free housing
Keagan got from Salvatori and
his friends."
Very dramatic.
"It gets us free television
time," said the aide. "Our goal
Is to have Mr. Unruh do
something each day that'll
make the 6 o'clock news. We
had a dilly scheduled for
tomorrow: Mr. Unruh was
going to ride miked on a white
palfrey down Sunset boulevard
to dramatize high taxes."
could get enough volunteers to
do the job), but, gee, wouldn't
it be nice if we could get all
these warm bodies to work on
all the wonderful projects we'd
like to see done. Think of all
the VISTA workers!
Marvelous!
What these men fail to
realize is that they are asking
people to become slaves, not on
the grounds that it is absolutely
essential in order to preserve
what freedoms they have, but
rather in order to make certain
charitable contributions. Now, I
have nothing against charity; I
consider it to be one of the
most noble activities a man can
participate in. But the essence
of charity is that it is
voluntarily done, not forced.
The proposal for "national
service" asks the citizenry to
give up their freedom not just
in a limited, short-term,
emergency situation, but rather
in a lasting program which
would conscript people, needed
or not.
I THINK IT IS TIME that all
of us, not just those of us who
have sought for a longtime a
volunteer military, but
everyone who recognizes that a
draft is involuntary servitude,
necessary or not, to understand
that a system which would de
mand such servitude for what
are essentially political ac
tivities would be a grave blow
indeed to a free society.
Great idea! What went
wrong?
"Do you know how much it
costs to rent a white
palfrey?"
Poor Mr. Unruh. I suppose if
he loses, he'll kill himself.
"We advised against it," said
the aide. "What good's free TV
time after the polls have
closed?"
Wait! The very fact that Mr.
Unruh's poverty-stricken can
be turned to his advantage. It
shows bhat no fat cats have
bought him off. Poor, but
honest, that's Mr. Unruh.
"By George, you're right!
This will turn the whole cam
paign airound. I'll get on the
phone to Associated Press!"
cried the aide enthusiastically.
"Excuse me, do you have a
dime on you and how would you
like to be Finance Director in
our new Administration?"
I said I didn't have a
dime.
"Well, we'll just have to
think of something else," lie
said with a shrug. And as 1 left
he was debating whether to
spend the remaining campaign
funds on three bumper strips or
a ham sandwich.
But it's good to know that no
one's bought my old friend, Mr.
Unruh. Unfortunately for him,
at this stage of the campaign, it
doesn't look as though anyone
will
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MONDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1970
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN